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$xhtml = array(
	'<{title}>' => 'Legend of a sea god',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="dreams">
	<h2>Dream journal</h2>
	<p>
		I dreamed that an elderly couple had lost their only child, a daughter, out at sea.
		They prayed to a great, blue, whale-like sea monster, called the Leviathan in the dream (no relation to the Leviathan from actual mythology), that their daughter would be spared.
		The Leviathan, along with two other great sea monsters lesser to the Leviathan itself, saved the young girl and adopted her as their own.
		They left the girl in the care of the elderly couple, but the three acted as her guardians for a time.
		Angry villagers came to try to rescue the child from the beast, despite her having been left with her parents unharmed.
		They didn&apos;t like a great sea monster being the child&apos;s guardian.
		The parents wanted the best for their child though, and asked everyone present who wanted the Leviathan to care for their child.
		The Leviathan; the unnamed, red, mid-sized creature; the elderly couple; and the child herself all showed a desire for this: the two creatures raised a fin, while the three humans raised their hands.
		(The unnamed, small, yellow, almost star-shaped sea monster at this point seemed no longer to exist.)
		Seeing this, the angry villagers let the matter drop, and the Leviathan prepared to take the girl out to sea.
	</p>
	<p>
		Instead of going out to sea though, they took her into the sky, for it turned out that they were gods and the sea was not their actual home.
		They seemed to live in an alternate dimension that they were able to travel to through the sky.
	</p>
	<p>
		The girl proved useful to the gods.
		They made sure she never came to harm, and in return, she did everything in her power to aid them.
		The biological parents got lonely after only a few days without her though, and prayed that their daughter would return.
		The daughter answered their prayers, and came leaving every bit of money she&apos;d made under the Leviathan&apos;s employ (as the sea monster god was paying her) with her parents.
		She visited for a while, but couldn&apos;t stay long.
		She&apos;d been in the middle of tracking down a target that was causing great harm to the sea, and needed to return to the search.
		Her parents got greedy though, and as she departed, they shouted to her that the money wasn&apos;t enough.
		They needed more.
	</p>
	<p>
		The couple quickly grew lonely once more, but they seemed to understand this time that their daughter had found a higher calling and that it was selfish of them to try to draw her from it, even for a moment.
		They tried their best to contain their loneliness and did not try to summon their daughter again.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="deposit">
	<h2>Bogus can deposit</h2>
	<p>
		I just knew WinCo would try to pull something and not give me back my deposit.
		That&apos;s why I wanted to keep that receipt on hand.
		As I lost it same-day, I figured my best hope for getting it back would be to return the cans the next day: today.
		I drank enough of the juice yesterday that I was able to fit the rest into a pitcher, and I brought the cans back today.
		Sure enough, the store refuses to take them back because they have no deposit, even though they incorrectly charged me a deposit yesterday on them.
		Without the receipt though, I have no evidence, so I&apos;m just out forty cents.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="lock">
	<h2>Bike lock warrantee</h2>
	<p>
		I&apos;d forgotten that this new bike lock came with a lifetime warrantee.
		I didn&apos;t realise this until late tonight, so there wasn&apos;t time to act today, but it seems the warranty allows me to return the lock to an authorised distributor (such as the bike shop I bought it from) to get it replaced.
		I&apos;m not sure when I&apos;ll have time, seeing as school is back in session, but hopefully in no later than a week.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>University drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		School is back in session, and you know what that means.
		That&apos;s right: it&apos;s time for the censorship of my journal to begin anew!
		This term looks like one of full censorship.
		It&apos;s highly likely not a single day&apos;s entry will go live before 2023.
	</p>
	<p>
		The maths course looks harder than I was anticipating.
		I do better in maths than most people I know, so I was expecting it to be review; practically a waste of my time.
		However, it looks like I&apos;ll actually be learning stuff in this course.
		Hopefully what I learn will be useful.
	</p>
	<p>
		As with last term, I&apos;m going to try making one discussion post per day as my minimum work to complete for the day; other work will need to be done as well, but won&apos;t be spaced out as much.
		The professor hadn&apos;t set up the discussion board in the maths course, so I completed a post for the English course instead.
		(The university website is so poorly designed that, although the discussion topic for the week is known ahead of time and can be seen by students if they know where to look, students can&apos;t post to the discussion board until the professor makes a post first.)
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Hello!
			My name is Alex Yst.
			People tend to see the name &quot;Alex&quot; though and assume it&apos;s short for something.
			They either assume it&apos;s short for &quot;Alexander&quot; and think I&apos;m a man or they assume it&apos;s short for &quot;Alexandra&quot; and think I&apos;m a woman.
			I&apos;m actually non-binary though, neither a man nor a woman, so I&apos;ve started stylising my name as Alexand(er|ra) lately to make the intent more clear.
			As far as the legal system is concerned though, my name is just Alex Yst.
			It&apos;s not short for anything at all.
		</p>
		<p>
			I want to take university courses for a couple reasons.
			First and foremost, I still have much to learn, and the acquisition of a formal education is helping me to do that.
			Last term for example, I learned a great deal about logic gates, circuits, and how software in $a[RAM] translates to instructions that a computer follows.
			Unfortunately, we failed to cover a number of important topics and several huge questions were brought up be never answered, but I still understand computers much better now than I did just before the term.
			Secondly, I seek better employment, and a degree will hopefully help me get that.
			From this course specifically, I&apos;m hoping to improve my writing skills.
			I keep a daily, public journal, and at a minimum, I&apos;d like this course to help me better express my ideas there.
			I&apos;ve also got plans to write stories when time allows, so if this course could help me improve my creative writing as well, that&apos;d also be great.
		</p>
		<p>
			I&apos;m a free software user and free culture enthusiast, completing my coursework on a Debian laptop.
			I listen to a lot of music, but I only buy free music; that is, music under a {$a['CC BY']} or {$a['CC BY-SA']} license.
			One of my biggest hobbies is keeping a <a href="https://y.st./">website</a>.
			My native language is $a[PHP], but I also speak Java, Python, Lua, $a[XML], $a[XHTML], $a[CSS], English, some $a[SQL], some JavaScript, and some Esperanto.
			I have a tendency to write up my assignments in $a[XHTML] and, if necessary, convert to whatever format the assignment instructions ask for.
			As a result, when I don&apos;t need to convert, you&apos;ll see any abbreviations I used have underlines.
			Just hover your mouse over them (in most Web browsers) to get an explanation of what the term means.
			My dream job would be to write and sell free software, but there aren&apos;t many companies doing that sort of thing.
			I&apos;ll probably end up taking a network administration job, where I can work with computers without being required to write proprietary software.
		</p>
		<p>
			I know the discussion instructions said to write one paragraph, but it also asks for three unrelated details about ourselves to be covered, and open-endedly allows us to include more.
			Cramming all that into a single paragraph is just messy ...
			So if it&apos;s a problem that I&apos;m braking this up into multiple paragraphs, I apologise.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		The topic for that course was to introduce ourselves in one paragraph, but you can&apos;t properly break up your ideas without multiple paragraphs.
		With that discussion post out of the way, no further urgent work in the English course was left, so I read the learning guide for the maths course to find out the to-be-posted discussion assignment.
		Depending on what it was, I&apos;d need to immediately turn my attention to the maths course to learn what I needed to know for the discussion by tomorrow.
		The discussion post there is bizarre though.
		I&apos;m not sure what to make of it, but I&apos;m not sure any amount of course reading material will help.
		Still, I began the reading assignment for that course just in case it had some insight.
	</p>
</section>
END
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